Crystal Ark - The Crystal Ark

Crystal Ark - The Crystal ArkThe Crystal Ark is the collaborative, body centric New York pop project of Gavin Russom and Viva Ruiz. The group began when Russom asked Ruiz to write and sing Spanish lyrics over a pair of instrumentals he had created, blending his signature hypnotic synthesizer sound with live Afro Latin percussion. Ruiz's fevered vocalizations, which blended song, spell and rallying cry, took these pieces to new heights and the result was two singles released on

The album finds Croker making his first-ever foray into the concept of love

And the response that you generally get at the end of the conversation is

otherwordly soundscapes that are both functional and edge on the side of melancholy are unmatched

Children on Stun - released on both digipak CD and spectacular RED & BLACK SPLATTER vinyl

still avant-garde

grimace purple vinyl

a town near Milan

is an eclectic

sweet beverages

and progressive metal riffs

Strictly limited five inch vinyl pressing of this EP

Mixing soaring melodicism and heavy bombast without ever sacrificing hooks